pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 21, 2025 10:26AM

I had to look up who it was. And I still don't know

woberto Report This Comment
Date: September 21, 2025 10:35AM

right-click and "save as" you'll figure it out...

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 21, 2025 10:37AM

I've never seen Stargate.

Was that with MacGuyver?

woberto Report This Comment
Date: September 23, 2025 11:33AM

Yes that was the second coming of MacGyver.
It was budget sc-fi done perfectly, as good as Babylon 5,

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 23, 2025 11:52AM

Never saw Babylon 5 either. DK was into all those sort of shows I think. And I'm pretty sure he loved Buffy and Charmed and shit.

I saw some Star Trek episodes once. Was ok. Shrug. I never really got into sci-fi stuff.

With that said, I honestly can't think of a lot of TV shows I was really into. Simpsons aside, I can pretty much quote every episode for the first 10 seasons of that word for word. Then again I'm also not really into any shows now, either.

At some point I'll watch Breaking Bad. And I'll watch Chernobyl one day, that definitely is up there for me interest wise, having been there. Hmm. What else? I've been watching Welcome to Wrexham, that's okay. And Clarkson's Farm.

Mostly my time with the TV on is me ignoring it. I'm typing this and doing some work while my wife is watching some baking thing. I can't actually think of anything I've watched lately and actually paid attention to.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: September 23, 2025 12:01PM

I am always late to the party mainly because you know - Australia.
We get everything late or on useless timeslots.
So I eventually saw these TV shows years later and enjoyed them minus the hype.

Now of course, Netflix and other streaming has the opposite effect for me.
TOO MUCH CONTENT.
So I actually trust the reviews of certain yoo-boobers and decide to watch or no-watch.
Penguin, Tulsa King, One Piece, Peaky Blinders, Reacher, Raised by Wolves.
Never hear of them, watched the trusted review, sailed the high seas and they are all winners.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 23, 2025 12:33PM

I still have my Foxtel subscription, otherwise everything comes from the high seas. I paid for Netflix for a while but honestly I didn't use it much. Too much choice, I'd just stare at it and shrug then do something else.

I currently have "free" HBO Max subscription with Foxtel which I've loaded once; and I had 12 months free Disney+ which similarly I never used so cancelled that the day it was going to expire. Oh and Amazon Prime which I also barely use.

With that said, that's probably because I already have quite an extensive personal collection and a nice Plex server sharing network with a number of others... And I still don't watch much.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: September 23, 2025 01:36PM

"I am always late to the party..."
There's little on now that I find interesting and I also gave up on Netflix. Having a limited budget I find older stuff on tubi and pluto where I'm not bothered by the ads because I became numb to them decades ago. One oldie I've been watching recently that I missed back in the day is Twin Peaks. I was 35 years late to that party. The main plot lines keep me interested; I'm a sucker for the mystery and detective genre (as a boy I had the entire Hardy Boys book collection and actually read them - used to be a big reader but my eyes aren't fond of it anymore), but David Lynch's absurdity just for the sake of absurdity can be annoying at times when it doesn't really add anything to the plot. I fell into the Midsomer Murders and Doctor Blake Mysteries and ran through all of them, and have seen most of Murdoch Mysteries, a period series from Canada that's been in production for 25 years, give or take. Perry Mason is a daily routine on one of the independent networks here and it's on in the background right now; I've seen every episode many times. I also have a taste for some western movies as long as they don't involve making native Americans into a deserving enemy.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 23, 2025 01:59PM

Hah. I was going to laugh and say I'm definitely not Twin Peaks level late to the party, though I did watch all of the original Twilight Zone run a year or so ago, so .. maybe?

I don't mind a number of the kind of crime/detective/whatever sort of shows. They're all a bit like mental chewing gum, your NCIS/FBI/CSI/L&O SVU etc kind of shows, or the slightly more off beat ones like Bull or Elsbeth or something. Like; they're all the same. You know the "good guys" are going to "win" 99.9% of the time, and you know the "bad guy" is whichever incidental character that has more than about 3 lines early in the show.

Basically, if they come on TV I won't turn them off, but I also won't follow a show/season/whatever and certainly not tuning in every week.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: September 23, 2025 02:25PM

I also started working my way through the original The Outer Limits recently on tubi. It's science fiction similar to The Twilight zone and was produced in the same era. The special effects are terrible, and some of the stories are totally ridiculous, but some are very thought provoking or just simply entertaining. When I was a kid, the opening of the show scared the shit out of me, lol.